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Azure AI Bot Service

Design and build enterprise-grade conversational AI bots.

Build conversational experiences with Power Virtual Agents and Azure AI Bot Service

Azure AI Bot Service provides an integrated development environment for bot building. Its integration with Power Virtual Agents, a fully hosted low-code platform, enables developers of all technical abilities build conversational AI bots—no code needed.

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Build bots quickly

Make, test, and publish bots using a low-code graphical interface.

Improve your bot applications over time

Automatically track critical bot telemetry and identify future topics.

Create multimodal and multichannel experiences

Connect to channels such as telephony and Microsoft Teams with minimal code changes.

Scale safely with centralized management

Deploy bots securely to maintain compliance and governance.

Collaboratively build bots with fusion teams

The integration of Azure AI Bot Service and Power Virtual Agents enables a multidisciplinary team with a range of expertise and abilities to build bots inside a single software as a service (SaaS) solution. Fusion teams can easily extend bots for complex scenarios with Bot Framework Composer.
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Extend your reach with multiple channels and languages

Configure chatbots to engage with customers and employees in a wide range of languages and channels including websites, mobile apps, Facebook, and Microsoft Teams.
A Developer's Guide to Building AI Applications

A Developer's Guide to Building AI Applications

Learn how to create your first conversational AI application with Azure AI Bot Service and Power Virtual Agents.

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Comprehensive security and compliance, built in

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Get started with an Azure free account

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Start free. Get USD$200 credit to use within 30 days. While you have your credit, get free amounts of many of our most popular services, plus free amounts of 55+ other services that are always free.

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After your credit, move to pay as you go to keep building with the same free services. Pay only if you use more than your free monthly amounts.

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After 12 months, you'll keep getting 55+ always-free services—and still pay only for what you use beyond your free monthly amounts.

Customers building conversational AI with Power Virtual Agents and Azure AI Bot Service

PwC simplifies data retrieval

PwC adopted Power Virtual Agents to help non-technical teams easily spin up bots across the organization's repositories and automate content search and improve learning and development.

 
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Giving fans the info they want when they want it

The Miami Dolphins created a chatbot that has handled 40,000 conversations with fans, resolving 97 percent of inquiries, while increasing customer satisfaction.

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Helping employees to navigate the pandemic

The City of Ottawa was able to respond swiftly during a public health crisis to help employees stay connected, informed, and supported using Power Virtual Agents.

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"One of the great things about Bot Service is that, out of the box, we could use it to quickly put together the basic framework for our bot."

Matt White, Marketing Manager, Personal Lines Acquisition Experience, Progressive Insurance

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"We used Azure AI Services and Microsoft Bot Framework to deliver an instantly responsive, personal expert into our customers' pockets. Providing this constant access to help is key to our customer care strategy."

 

Paul Jacobs, Group Head of Operations Transformation, Vodafone

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Resources and documentation

Bot building with fusion teams

Learn more about Power Virtual Agents.

Read about the future of bot building.

Please view the Azure AI Bot Service documentation here.

Samples and learning modules

Learn how to build bots using Power Virtual Agents.

Take a guided tour of Power Virtual Agents.

Read the Developer's Guide to Building AI Applications.

Community and support

Connect to the global Power Virtual Agents community.

Ask questions and get support from Microsoft engineers and the open-source Bot Framework community on Gitter and Stack Overflow.

Frequently asked questions about Azure AI Bot Service

  • Start with teams that fuse diverse experiences, skillsets, and responsibilities and collaborate to build bots across low-code and pro-code platforms with Power Virtual Agents. You'll also have access to the Azure Bot Framework Composer at no extra cost.

  • Please view the Bot Framework SDK documentation here.

  • Power Virtual Agents empowers fusion teams to seamlessly build secure and scalable virtual agents. Whether it's a simple FAQ or a complex conversational requirement, accelerate bot building with an intuitive world-class designer to respond to both customer and colleague needs. Power Virtual Agents supports rapid development, enabling makers to build without limits with the option to extend the sophistication by allowing pro-code users to create dialogs using the Azure Bot Framework Composer.

  • If the authoring canvases for Power Virtual Agents and Bot Framework Composer don't meet your needs, you can use Power Virtual Agents to call Bot Framework skills, extend them with bot applications built with Bot Framework, and leverage other Azure services.

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